G'day everyone and welcome to my small gardening youtube channel so today I'm
gonna be growing some blueberries in containers now the good thing about
growing blueberries in containers is once they grow very well in containers
and then too they are portable as well and you can easily manage how much
nutrients they get water and just general management as well which is
awesome and I'm going to be growing them in some root pouches which awesome I'll
explain them very soon but I got those from Rob from Rob's backyard farming in
aquaponics fellow Aussie top bloke so thank you very much Rob for these and if
you want to check out his channel make sure you do it's a link will be in the
description he does a lot a lot of cool stuff grows heaps and heaps of produce
at their urban farm up in Queensland so make sure you check out his channel
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all doing well so I do is this sort of stuff on my channel growing just really
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button so the good thing about root pouch is growing some blueberries and
the good thing about root pouch is that they are air pruning so basically what
that is I'm not a real big expert I know very little but basically basically the
basic principles are that the roots will grow they will grow through this fabric
and hit the dry air and they will get pruned off by the dry air and so in
response the plantain ants sends out more roots and they're much thinner
they're much more like hair they also like hair like roots and these are much
better at picking up water and nutrients so blueberries like a very acidic soil
so I'm going to be making up a story blend which I got straight from
information of one of the varieties that I've got so it's basically 50% camila
and it's a potting mix which is for acid-loving plans and then also 50% pine
bark mulch plus added some compost and blood and bone as
well just to add some more nutrients to the soil and then gave the whole lot a
good mixing but basically I've got two blueberry plants I got three pots but
two blueberry plants and one of them is the blueberry burst which is a new
Australian cultivar I believe and it's supposedly supposed to have blueberries
that are about four times the size I think of regular blueberries it's also a
dwarf dwarf variety so they only grows to about a meter and it's supposed to be
very very good for pots and then the other one I have got is the sunshine
blue I've grown this before in a very small plastic pot and it did okay but it
was really restricting it this again it's not a dwarf but it only grows to a
meter high or a meter and hop high in about a meter wide so again it's a nice
dense bushy blueberry plant okay so these are my blueberries so I've got the
blueberry burst on the left here this is the Australian cultivar and yeah this is
suppose this is the one that's supposed to have very large berries dwarf variety
as well and then this here is the sunshine blue which I have grown before
and if you've been with subscribed to my channel for a while you would have
probably seen the other one that was growing in the 30 centimeter or about 12
inches and that's just black plastic pot so I know that this one does well in
containers and also this is going to be going in a much bigger container and
it's also the root pouch which is even better so they're looking really really
good this one has nice root system and it's got a good overall shape and then
this one here has a brilliant shape already it's got the nice V shape even
though it wasn't the biggest I always look the two things I look for is one is
the shape already doesn't matter the size it's got to have a good shape and
also a good root system you don't want it to be pop out or Rick down that's
where the roots just circle the bottom of the brief The Container imprint watch
strangle itself so these are the varieties I'm going to be planting so
yeah they look great and I'm so excited so we'll get to planting them now okay
so now I'll just be filling it up with the potting media so I'm just going to
put some in the bottom and then once it gets to about the depth of the pot I'll
just be sitting the pot in there and back filling around it so have a look
nuts still need a bit more to fill up whoops-a-daisy okay check that now okay
so that's sitting a bit of probably two centimetres nearly an inch underneath
the top of the pot but that is good because what you do with blueberries is
actually plant them a bit deeper planting them an inch or about two and a
half centimetres deeper and that way they will actually grow roots more roots
so they'll be able to form a better root system and also that's a way of
propagating it so if you fill it up to the top that covers some of the shoots
and then that way they will form roof and you can actually propagate the
blueberries that way now just take it out of its pot and give it a bit of a
bit of a squeeze down the bottom there we go that is got a really nice root
system and that's the thing about blue rose they have a very fine sort of just
root mass it's not a lot of these thick ones it's more the fine yet finer roots
and if on this sort of mat so the bottom no I will just back
all right in there we will just pot up the blueberry best so I'm just going to
be filling it up at the bottom again so I will try to put this one up slightly
different so basically what I'm hoping so just get the depth right probably a
little bit more and that seems okay that's a bit better so now what I'm
actually going to do is just completely backfill around it while it's still in
the pot which I should have actually done for the first one all right that's
okay so then hopefully what will happen is that I'll be I'll just take it
straight out of the pot and they leave a hole then I'll just be able to put it in
like that all right pack it down a bit take it out yeah we go look at that give
it a bit of a squeeze upside down gently just tease it out
see yeah look at that nice root system there then we're just tease these roots
out just a little bit straight back in the hole a good push down and there we
go so after I finished back filling the blueberries in the pots I also put most
of the remaining pine bark mulch on top as a mulch this way it just helps to
lock in some of that water stop the soil from drying out and also helps to keep
the soil a bit acidified as well which they will love then after that I did
also remove the flowers now it is actually really important to remove the
flowers especially in the first year this just then helps
plant because all of its energy on production forming a good root system
and getting yourself established and also on top getting a good framework
making sure that the top foliage is nice and big so that way it will be out of
fruit more in the following years so that pretty much wraps most of it up but
before I move on just to finish I've got to thank a very special group of people
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guys are amazing now lastly with fertilizing the
blueberries I am going to be fertilizing them a couple of times a year it will be
probably once a year with compost that'll probably be in like spring and
then spring or summer and then also around the same time I'll probably be
doing using a bit of potash sorry what is it
sulfate a potash that's one and that helps to promote more flowers therefore
more fruit so that'll pretty much be it just those
and then also liquid feeding during the growing season so spring and summer as
well so yeah I really think that these these blueberries will get up to a great
start they've got a really good mix as well so
that is definitely important and will definitely help in their growing so I
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